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- Title
Performing a Geography of Asian America: The Chop Suey Circuit.
- Authors
SanSan Kwan
- Abstract
The article discusses the Asian American show troupes who performed throughout the U.S. between the 1930s and 1940s. These were formed as an alternative means of employment from the sweatshops and other forms of manual labor open to Asians at the time. By singing and dancing the popular pieces of their day, they were able to exploit their differentness without being too alien to audiences then. It claims that Asians then had no place in the strict segregationist policies of the era, which had separate places for Caucasians and African Americans.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ASIAN Americans; PERFORMANCES; SWEATSHOPS; SEGREGATION laws
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2011, Vol 55, Issue 1, p120
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/DRAM_a_00052